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• There’s only one interview technique that matters… Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

  Jim Lehrer

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• The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you’re working. You don’t get to appreciate everything. But I got enough of a sampler of South Africa; I thought, ‘I want to come here when I don’t have to interview people for a living so that I can really enjoy it.’ Because I think it was just a magnificent place.

  Lester Holt

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• I’m probably the worst person for ‘Men’s Health’ to interview.

  Jamie Dornan

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• The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it’s really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it’s nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

  Zaha Hadid

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• It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview – and it can be polite – is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can’t be exactly sure what will be asked.

  Greta Van Susteren

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• In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage – including unfair damage – from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

  Greta Van Susteren

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• I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don’t connect with you if you’re not honest.

  Neil Strauss

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• I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

  Neil Strauss

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• A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

  David Steinberg

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• Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you’re a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you’re a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you’re going to get at it. Acting’s no different.

  Tom Sizemore

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• We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

  David Thomas Jones

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• The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn’t tell him the dog’s name.

  David Hyde Pierce

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• There’s been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I’ve heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I’d heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  Dan Hicks

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• In every interview I’ve got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It’s gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I’m as critical about music as everybody else is.

  Brian Austin Green

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• Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

  Bob Schieffer

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• I’ve been an assistant for seven years now and I haven’t had one head coaching interview. I’m doing something wrong.

  Patrick Ewing

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• I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

  Patricia Highsmith

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• I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there’s a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.

  Steve Kanaly

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• I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

  Heath Ledger

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• I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

  Tom Araya

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